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bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reform
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Sean Whitton |
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bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reformat |
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Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:32:13 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
On Fri 23 Sep 2022 at 06:21PM +02, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> `M-RET' uses the text before point as the prefix, so if you `M-RET' at
> the end of the second line, you get
>
> ---
>> This is some.
>>
>
>
>
>>
>> This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more. This is
>> more. This is more. This is more.
> ---
>
> which is what we're aiming for. So I'm not sure whether this is a
> bug -- I think this is what it's meant to do. But perhaps it should be
> documented better?
Yeah, the docstring sounds like do-what-I-mean reformatting, not
something more specific that cares about exactly where point is in the
line. (I'd still advocate for changing it -- is there any use for this
command aside from splitting up quoted text like this?)
--
Sean Whitton